How to Use sector in a Sentence

sector

1 of 2 noun

• He was assigned to the northern sector.
• Data is stored on the disk in 512-byte sectors.
• The path to profit in the media sector has long been well defined.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 12 July 2023
• That is far higher than the money made in most other health sectors.
  — Jordan Rau, New York Times, 19 Nov. 2023
• Few civilians get to see the science and tech that researchers in the defense sector are working on.
  — Sarah Scoles, Popular Science, 8 June 2023
• The $270 million fund-raising round is notable, given the downturn in the biotech sector.
  — Jonathan Saltzman, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Apr. 2023
• That’s a big shift – the sector is still down 3.4% this year, according to FactSet data.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 19 July 2023
• In addition to that, there is still a persistent gender gap in the sector.
  — Melissa Noel, Essence, 6 Oct. 2023
• The construction industry and other sectors would feel the pain, too.
  — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 14 May 2023
• The latest Market Talks covering the Health Care sector.
  — WSJ, 18 Dec. 2023
• This is the first tech deal to be blocked since the European Union introduced new competition rules for the sector.
  — WIRED, 25 Sep. 2023
• Part of its focus is on the transportation sector, 58% of the emissions from which come from passenger cars and trucks, according to the EPA.
  — Alexa St. John, Fortune, 26 Jan. 2024
• No sector seems to have an answer to this economic riddle.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023
• The financial sector is one of the less surprising sources of this high-income bullying.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 28 Mar. 2024
• Even after the lockdowns ended, the lodging sector has battled to recover from the shutdowns.
  — George Avalos, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2024
• More pain is coming for China’s real estate sector, as new home prices sank by 0.3% from the previous month, the steepest drop in almost a year.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2023
• What is rarely apparent is what the health cost is, because that cost is born in a different sector and often at a different time.
  — Rob Reddick, WIRED, 30 Oct. 2023
• Mass layoffs are taking place in sectors that include tech and journalism.
  — Tajja Isen, The Atlantic, 15 June 2023
• For instance, the minimum age for jobs in the agriculture sector the minimum age is much lower.
  — Keenan Thomas, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2024
• But the study is helpful in outlining how issues such as burnout and low wages are leading to an unsustainable level of turnover in this sector.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2023
• But like other parts of the state, San Diego has grown more diverse after decades of immigration and the establishment of a booming biotech sector.
  — Jill Cowan, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2023
• The latest Market Talks covering the Auto and Transport sector.
  — WSJ, 22 Nov. 2023
• Schmidt is among an array of prominent foreign investors attracted to the nascent promise of Ukraine’s tech sector.
  — TIME, 8 Feb. 2024
• The world’s livestock sector is a key driver of climate change, contributing around 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Paul Winters, Discover Magazine, 16 Mar. 2024
• The German yard wanted a vessel focused on wellness, as the trend has well and truly infiltrated the marine sector.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Dec. 2023
• The difference is in the particular sector of the trucking industry.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 1 Aug. 2023
• Ukrainian forces would likely make a special effort to destroy T-14s if their presence were detected in a sector.
  — Sébastien Roblin, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
• Vietnam has made visa applications easier this year to help revive the tourism sector.
  — Lionel Lim, Fortune Asia, 14 Dec. 2023
• Layoffs in the tech sector have surged by a factor of 16 from last year, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray, and Christmas, while finance job cuts have more than doubled.
  — Irina Ivanova, Fortune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Some have worried that as the booming labor market recovery gave way to a milder expansion, job growth would mostly narrow to less cyclical sectors like government hiring and health care.
  — Talmon Joseph Smith, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2024

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sector

2 of 2 verb

• Investors need to give the over-the-counter drugs sector a thorough health check.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• The chances of this deal going through seem high, because as of right now, the allegations are sectored off onto a specific person, not Adidas as an entity.
  — Hunter Cooke, ajc, 28 Sep. 2017
• Jobs in Houston's professional and business services sector increased 4.9 percent year-over-year, while the nation saw an increase of 2.2 percent.
  — Erin Douglas, Houston Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2019
• And, regardless of which sectors the new jobs are in, the structural shifts in the economy haven’t prevented over-all wages from rising lately, as employers have been forced to compete for workers—a very welcome development.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• The information and financial activities sectors both lost about 1,000 jobs.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 14 Nov. 2019
• In September, quad witching coincided with major changes to several popular ETFs pegged to sector indexes.
  — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• Investors need to give the over-the-counter drugs sector a thorough health check.
  — Stephen Wilmot, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2017
• The chances of this deal going through seem high, because as of right now, the allegations are sectored off onto a specific person, not Adidas as an entity.
  — Hunter Cooke, ajc, 28 Sep. 2017
• Jobs in Houston's professional and business services sector increased 4.9 percent year-over-year, while the nation saw an increase of 2.2 percent.
  — Erin Douglas, Houston Chronicle, 27 Aug. 2019
• And, regardless of which sectors the new jobs are in, the structural shifts in the economy haven’t prevented over-all wages from rising lately, as employers have been forced to compete for workers—a very welcome development.
  — John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• The information and financial activities sectors both lost about 1,000 jobs.
  — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 14 Nov. 2019
• In September, quad witching coincided with major changes to several popular ETFs pegged to sector indexes.
  — Asjylyn Loder, WSJ, 21 June 2019

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024